Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Scrum Retrospective – What about best practices and learning from success?


As per Scrum Guide, the purpose of the Sprint Retrospective is to:

  • Inspect how the last Sprint went with regards to people, relationships, process, and tools;
  • Identify and order the major items that went well and potential improvements; and,
  • Create a plan for implementing improvements to the way the Scrum Team does its work.


But Scrum Guide is silent about on How?

The question of how become more important as scale of Scrum Agile increases in an enterprise.

To answer one part of How – “How and why something worked well?” Fu Pan might be an answer.

Fu Pan concept has its origin in Lenovo and widely supported by its chairman Liu Chuanzhi. The idea is to intentionally slow down and analyze events - both successes and failures - in order to learn from them and move ahead at a faster pace.

Goal:  What had you originally set out to do?

Measure results: What have you achieved and is it what you set out to do?

Brainstorm: Find outcomes, highlights and lowlights of the final result

Analysis: Get to the root cause of why the outcomes were achieved

Insights: Learnings based on the analysis. Determine what to replicate in the future, what behaviors to start, stop and continue

I am planning to use Fu Pan during Retrospective and also at Program level.

Any ideas, pointers?

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